Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15th, 2009
If you wander around any of Red Hat’s offices you might see this quote from Mahatma Gandhi : “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Or you may have seen this (exceptionally cool) video at one of our conferences : Of course Gandhi wasn’t talking about [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 20th, 2009
I’d like to think of myself as an informed prognosticator having worked for Sun for almost 9 years; but this is prognostication nonetheless. I missed my chance to say what I thought of an IBM acquisition but I’ll start by saying – I think I preferred it – it probably would’ve been a better outcome [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2009
Spring happens pretty quickly in North Carolina; it arrives overnight and is over in a month. The speed at which everything bursts into life is incredible. So, yet again I’m a little late updating this blog’s header image. Mainly for my own purposes – the images I use for the header are in this Fickr [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2009
JBoss adding muscle to Apache CXF. We’ll be increasing our commitment to Apache CXF – in term of both resource and expertise and fully support CXF in future versions of our products. More from Alessio Saldano (JBoss WS Lead), Dan Kulp (PMC Chair for CXF) and Sacha (JBoss CTO). Talking of Sacha – he’s just [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2009
Today we’re announcing a couple of things. First – the immediate availability of JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 (JBDS 2.0). This is a pretty significant release, with many new features including : Support for JBoss ESB, specifically the ability to create projects, deploy, debug and manage configurations. Improvements to the jPDL Graphical Process Designer A new [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 20th, 2009
Red Hat/JBoss Sessions at EclipseCon2009 BoF: Linux Extended IDE – Linux Tracing a BOF by Andrew Overholt et.al. Monday, 19:30, 1 hour and 15 minutes | Room 211 Hands-On: Using the new Common Builder for Push-Button PDE Builds a 4-hour tutorial by Nick Boldt, Andrew Overholt, Andrew Niefer (IBM). Monday, 08:00, 4 hours | Room [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2009
JBoss is still hiring. Our Global Professional Services Organization is looking to fill a couple of roles : Job Title: Inside Middleware Solutions Architect Link: https://redhat.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=4151 Job Title: Middleware Solutions Architect (LA, Boston, DC/VA/MD) Link: https://redhat.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/searchjobs.cgi
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2009
Here’s an interesting customer story that demonstrates just how long JBoss has been used for serious production workloads. The Ecuadorian Internal Revenue Service has been using JBoss App Server (and more recently JBoss App Platform) to run their business since 2002 – they started on version 2.4 – I didn’t even know there was a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009
I noticed earlier today that this blog had disappeared from Google’s search index. I only check my stats. infrequently so don’t know when it happened but I quickly confirmed with : And after a bit of Googling I arrived at the conclusion that my blog had been purposely removed from the Google Index due to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009
Three new community releases and one JSR review hit my inbox this morning : JBoss Cache 3.0.3 GA, bug fixes and a few feature requests. Manik says “I recommend that everyone who is on JBoss Cache 2.x and 3.x move to this release, it is the fastest, most stable release to date”. JBoss AS 5.0.1 [...]